<div id="title">about</div>
	<center><img src="http://www.eclectic-blue.com/images/me/seniorportrait.jpg"></center><br>
	My real name is MacKay, but my online alias is "blue." I chose the nickname toward the end 
	of my senior year of high school, because I was moving on to new things and wanted
	my name to reflect that.<br><br>
	But why "blue"?<br><br>
	It was around this time when I decided to create my first website. All records of this site
	are now gone; but the name I chose for it was "smile and be blue". Everything was done in
	shades of blue, with pictures of me. It was a somewhat sad site, with some of my less happy
	thoughts and dreams, old journal entries, posted up on it.<br><br>
	That site didn't last long, but the name stuck around. Soon after I changed my livejournal
	name to "and_be_blue", and my AOL/AIM screen name was quick to follow. I officially became
	"and be blue". I bought this website, eclectic blue, to reflect that name and that feeling.
	When I entered the dolling world, it was shortened to just "blue," and my site was called
	"dolls in blue [and other assorted colors]."<br><br>
	There are many different versions of the name, of course. On AIM I'm now "red handed blue,"
	due to a fiasco with cancelling AOL and losing my screen name; my MSN account is under
	"red_handed_blue@hotmail.com". My g-mail address is
	<a href="mailto:be.blue@gmail.com">be.blue</a>.<br><br>
	If you're interested in more about me, I'll babble on a bit longer.<br><br>
	At twenty two years old, I am in my own apartment [but it functions as living with my parents, I suppose, since they're in the same building and own the apartment I live in] with a year and a half old kitten who is completely insane and has permanently scarred my arms. I love her. She's a cutie.<br><br>

I spend far too much of my life delving into the pixel art world; when I'm not actually making anything [which I don't, usually; I make a piece a week, on average and update my site less than once a month] I'm browsing various forums [such as <a href="http://www.tequila-sun.com">Tequila Sunrise</a>, for which I am a founding members, <a href="http://www.eden-enchanted.com">Eden Enchanted</a>, where I moderate, and <a href="http://www.pixeljoint.com">PixelJoint</a>, where I mostly just lurk] or running contests on my contest forum <a href="http://www.eclectic-blue.com/blueribbon">Blue Ribbon</a>. I'm also actually getting paid to do this crap for a cool neopets-style site with pirates called <a href="http://www.doublooncove.com">Doubloon Cove</a>.<br><br>

Other hobbies involve extensive amounts of online RP [basically whenever I can, which is FAR LESS OFTEN than whenever I want] as well as tabletop & live action games. I love the Rennaissance Festival, and own tons of my own garb. I am, in fact, one of those. I make my own jewelry. I'm decent at DDR, and wish I owned a gaming system on which I could play it. I read trash fantasy. I argue with people for the sake of arguing, sometimes, and other times just can't be arsed. I love cooking, and food, and this naturally leads to the dieting and the working out. I now own a bathtub, which I am making regular use of. I watch way too much TV, especially Law & Order and the Disney Channel. An amusing combination, perhaps.<br><br>

I guess I'm really in flux, at the moment, working at the renn faire and looking for a bartending job, floating around my apartment, considering grad school, but really unfocused and okay with that.<br><br>